These tough bikers have a soft spot: aiding child-abuse victims. Anytime, anywhere, for as long as it takes the child to feel safe, these leather-clad guardians will stand tall and strong against the dark, and the fear, and those who seek to harm.

Any confirmation on the rumor that while engaged in his shooting spree, James Holmes crapped his pants? I had understood that Holmes had soiled himself with both urine and feces while murdering people. Does anyone know if James Holmes defecated with his clothes on? BTW, please feel free to spread these questions to as many boards, news areas, etc as possible.

@johnjones: Indeed, the only reason he gave up was because he wanted a nappy change.

And the only reason he told the cops about the booby-traps was because he remembered that he had his wife -- one of those pillows printed with an Anime character on it -- tied up in the closet. (She wouldn't put out for him.)

No, no, no. This is something at least semi-serious. Figure a lot of these fuckers do this sort of thing for the fame, fear and twisted "respect" that it gets for them. So, I want to rip that away. I want "James Holmes" and "shat himself" to be linked in the public's mind in order to destroy whatever mystique this bastard has cultivated. I literally want to shit on any sense of triumph that he's gained out of this. And I want to do the same thing to the next guy and the guy after that and so on. I want to start the meme that "Spree killers shit themselves" to perhaps discourage people from spree-killer. No, you're not cool. You're just a nutjob that can't control your bowels. That's the idea I want to burn into the public mind. Anyone up for spreading that around just a little bit?

This from my friend Nick O'Malley, the US correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Before the dead had even been carried from the cinema in Colorado on Friday afternoon a CBS broadcaster said in a solemn radio editorial:

'We'll eventually find out who James Holmes is, but he's not a terrorist, we're told, and thousands of other showings were peaceful, so really we have to start seeing these things as natural disasters, like an earthquake or a tornado.'"

Mind boggling. I'll post the link to the rest of the article when it's up - he's only just filed it.

It was one of the biggest secrets of the post-9/11 era: soon after the attacks, President Bush gave the CIA permission to create a top secret assassination unit to find and kill Al Qaeda operatives. The program was kept from Congress for seven years. And when Leon Panetta told legislators about it in 2009, he revealed that the CIA had hired the private security firm Blackwater to help run it. "The move was historic," says Evan Wright, the two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist who wrote Generation Kill. "It seems to have marked the first time the U.S. government outsourced a covert assassination service to private enterprise."